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Very good little read, especially for me. Really touches on a lot of feelings I was having a little while ago, I don't know if this is something you just wanted to write or if it's something you're feeling Snoop, but it get's better.

I was there too:

How can you decide that the negative effects are outweighed by the good, if nobody went into detail on how severe the negatives were?

I don't think the benefits of outlawing performance enhancing drugs would match negatives.

What if it's addictive? What if it eventually kills you? In the same example of Strength over Chakra you ask why a kage would outlaw that.

Well, lets say the Kage decides this shit is too good to pass up, makes it widely available for everyone and encourages their shinobi to use it. Two years later all of the ninja in that village are ripped and are physically superior to any other ninja village. But not a single one of them can use jutsu anymore.

Some genin from an opposing village gets his hand on a massive fireball scroll, uses it on that village. So do they all just collectively throw their bodies in front of it in hopes to dissipate the fireball?

1. It will only increase the presence and activity of the black market in their village.

Fair point, you're right. But it's not like that's immediately a deal breaker. In Canada we have a ban on a lot of different weapons, like butterfly knives and automatic firearms. People still smuggle them in but that's a generous 1%, compared to the amount of people who would own them if they could just be purchased legally.

2. People will not stop using it.

Then they'll suffer the full effects of their decision.

3. If their shinobi face the shinobi of another village, they will be at a disadvantage if they use the drug.

A disadvantage in whatever the drug enhances, and an advantage of whatever it decreases.

4. Many jutsu/secret techniques already have an element of risk from use (8 gates, learning Senjutsu, Forbidden jutsu, food pills). If they are to ban certain drugs because they are similar, then shouldn't they ban Senjutsu and the 8 gates?

8 Gates aren't taught to just anyone, and the users know they have to be responsible with it, and be careful of how deep they go into it. It also isn't a substance that can be abused and sold. Not everyone gets a crack at learning Senjutsu, and those who do are usually both very skilled and well aware of what happens should they fail. Forbidden jutsu, believe it or not, are forbidden. As for food pills, the Akimichi clan pretty much kept those for themselves. The dangerous ones anyway. But they're used as a last resort ace in the hole. Choji doesnt just pop a red pill before training.

This is why a kage would want to outlaw something like this. If it only enhanced your performance without any negative drawback then of course nobody would outlaw it, but that's not (Or shouldn't be) the case. Since it's a matter of opinion how much the worth of the positives are against the negatives, different villages might have different policies for them.

CHARACTER NAME : Hikaru Kirishima
CHARACTER RANK IN VILLAGE: You can make me chuunin or Jounin, up to you. I was going to go with chuunin but it felt kind of weird being a representative for my village as a chuunin, so I'll leave it up to you lol
CHARACTER ABILITY/SKILL: 11-17 (Depending on which rank you choose)
ROGUE? Y OR N: N
EVIL at heart? Nope
YOUR VILLAGE IF YOU ARE NOT ROGUE: Inferunogakure

https://www.shinobilifeonline.com/index.php?topic=2385.msg34529#msg34529

For contraband items there could be something like, maybe some kind of drug that increases your strength and muscle mass but takes a toll on your chakra pool and regeneration. Perhaps deadly poisons or toxins that have been outlawed in certain regions. Explosive compounds that have been deemed too dangerous for use. Stuff that you can actually use as a shinobi if you aren't caught with it, other than shit like "Ninja weed" that just puts a distortion filter over your screen.

Maybe some villages are against performance enhancing drugs because of certain negative effects that come with them, maybe some villages think their use should be allowed but regulated. Some villages may not care. That should be something for the Kage of that village to decide

I really liked it tho sometimes the vfx felt like they were giving me a seizure

Well then I fear you're in for a very long and painful eternity

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